A Bookshop in Berlin : the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
by Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975 (Author)
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In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich c... Full description